Ten SJS golfers have
won NorCal titles with Beyer - Modesto's Marina Martinez taking the individual championship most recently in 2006, but no SJS girls golfer has ever won a CIF State Golf Championship.
Despite the fact that he hasn't seen any change in demeanor from his team since
it won the NorCal title, DeLuca spent the past week keeping expectations simple and anxiety low.
In both cases, Pleasant Grove lost to the eventual champion (Kennedy - Sacramento won the section title and Berkeley
won NorCal).
The Spartans
won the NorCal crown in 2011, when Pagila finished fourth individually as a sophomore.
In 2014, there was no such game so the two teams didn't play, necessitating the Spartans (also unbeaten) just being selected for the Open Division while Folsom had to
win a NorCal Div.
The Yellowjackets knocked off Monte Vista - Danville (the team which defeated them in the NCS semifinals) before
winning the NorCal final 61 - 51 over Menlo - Atherton - Atherton (the team which knocked them from the ranks of the unbeaten back in late December).
Austin Smotherman, Del Oro, Sr, The SMU - bound senior is probably the section's best shot to
winning a NorCal and / or state title after finishing fourth at both tournaments as a junior.
V, and there's no doubt they would have been heavy favorites to not only
win the NorCal championship, but the state title as well.
Not exact matches
In all, the mighty Southern Section
won 19 of the 32 possible state titles, but
NorCal came away victorious in six events.
STONE SMARTT: The Del Oro - Loomis senior QB remained delivered a 4 - TD effort in the Golden Eagles»
NorCal regional
win on Dec. 3.
Last season, with just two seniors and one junior, the Pride brought a 21 - game
win streak into its
NorCal Open Division matchup with De La Salle.
The Mustangs became the first CIF
NorCal Division I girls soccer champions after a hard - earned 1 - 0
win over Archbishop Mitty - San Jose in a meeting of two of the nation's most elite programs.
But after opening with a 72 - 54
win over Lowell - San Francisco, the Gaels» season suddenly ended with an 83 - 80 loss to No. 9 seed Palo Alto in the
NorCal quarterfinals.
Awarded a penalty kick after a foul in a tied - up tense CIF
NorCal Division I semifinal with Carondelet - Concord, Anderson converted in the 62nd minute and the host Mustangs advanced with a 2 - 1
win on March 8.
It then
won its first
NorCal title in 2015.
Smotherman shot a 4 - under 67 at San Gabriel Country Club to
win the state title while
NorCal swept the top three team spots, led by Sierra Foothill League rival Granite Bay.
The Spartans, who finished No. 1 in SportStars» final
NorCal Top 20 rankings for 2017, lost a road game to Bishop Gorman - Las Vegas on Sept. 16 before
winning eight straight and capturing the program's 26th consecutive North Coast Section title.
The
win was the third straight for the Cougars, who remained at No. 8 in the SportStars
NorCal Top 20 after the victory over the No. 10 - ranked Matadors who dropped to 10 - 4 with the loss.
CIF BOWL IMPLICATIONS: A
win for Folsom all but assures the No. 3 - ranked team in the state with a
NorCal Division I bid.
After
winning the 2012 championship, the Mustangs added a
NorCal championship and a CIF State Bowl berth.
The Bears were the only
NorCal team NOT to
win a state final a year ago, having been swept by Redondo - Redondo Beach in the Div.
Omania fluctuated between 1 and 3 on the SportStars
NorCal rankings all season, and
won crucial victories over rivals Jake Ryan of Oakdale and Lawrence Saenz of Vacaville at the Temecula Valley Battle for the Belt to earn his No. 1 seed at state.
As long as the Gauchos can take care of business and
win their first NCS title, they should be a lock for one of the two CIF
NorCal Bowl participants.
Janda, who became the
winningest coach in Central Coast Section history with the
NorCal bowl
win, noticed Folsom was defending the pass more in the second half.
Day two saw some great rugby from everyone involved and saw
wins for all
NorCal teams advancing GB and Jesuit to their respective Finals, while NB and Sierra would face each other for 5th place in the Tier 2 bracket.
He became just the 10th player to
win the award twice, and the first
NorCal player to do so since Jason Kidd
won it back - to - back in 1991 and 1992.
CIF High School Sports Successes: 17th all - time
winningest coach in California with a record of 530 - 133 20 league titles (BVAL & EBAL) 10
NorCal Championships with a California state championship 10 NCS championships Sent more than 32 athletes to play ball at the collegiate and pro level Numerous «Coach of the Year» honors including her favorite honor, «California Coaches Association's Northern California's Coach of the Year, 2014»
I know what it takes to play competitive tennis and
win tournaments reaching a ranking of # 1 in
Norcal for Men's 4.0 singles and # 2 in
Norcal for Men's 4.5 singles.
Despite Mitty's dominance during a 13 - 1 league season, six WCAL teams reached the Northern California playoffs, five reached the
NorCal semifinals, four reached the CCS Open semifinals, three
won CCS titles, and three played for state championships.
But despite the traditional trip to Oregon City for the End of the Oregon Trail tournament, only one
NorCal club has ever
won the 34 - year - old event.
Pinewood's Hannah Jump embraces Klara Astrom (11) in the wake of their
NorCal Open Division finals
win over Archbishop Mitty.
The USF - bound guard delivered whatever the Spartans needed on their way to 31
wins and a CIF
NorCal Open Div.
But after Las Lomas adjusted, the Knights combined just enough offense with impressive defense to
win their first - ever
NorCal title.
Then Devin Payne of Las Lomas scored nine points in a three - minute span to spark the Knights to a 44 - 41
win Saturday in the CIF
NorCal Division I finals at the University of Santa Clara.
As of Sept. 30, the Bulldogs — ranked No. 2 in the SportStars
NorCal Top 20 — are the only Top 20 team with
wins over three teams still in the rankings (Sacramento, Oakdale and Granite Bay).
League champ Marin Catholic went to the
NorCal Open Division as expected, but Branson - Ross, a team that has
won multiple Div.
Rachel Howard — The senior got a double - double (13 points, 12 boards) in Berkeley's
NorCal final
win over Kennedy - Sacramento and a team - high 12 points in a loss to Mater Dei - Santa Ana in the state final.
Here is a list of top
NorCal schools ranked according to
winning percentage in the Decade of Dominance category, at least so far this decade (2010 to 2015):
BIGGEST MOVERS: Berkeley jumped into the rankings in the 13th spot thanks to a great run through
NorCal Division I ««which still couldn't quite push the Yellowjackets past some teams that didn't
win D - 1 because 11 losses are, after all, 11 losses.
He then
won Varsity State Championships at Los Olivos against both
NorCal and SoCal riders.
The game plan, since the Lions fell to Berkeley in the 2014
NorCal quarterfinals, was to
win a state title.
Top 20
NorCal All - Time Football Coaching Leaders The following list does not consider the CIF Central Section as being in the North, and is based on reported
win totals.
The Pleasant Grove - Elk Grove girls did not
win a league or section title, but reached the
NorCal final with three consecutive 2 - point
wins on the road and then upset perennial power Berkeley 51 - 42 to punch its ticket to the state final.
The Panthers advanced to the semifinals of the
NorCal Open Division after Carondelet - Concord forfeited its game due to a violation of team rules at a postgame party that followed Carondelet's North Coast Section championship
win.
After stunning St. Mary's, there just wasn't enough in the tank for the team to
win its ninth
NorCal title; Miramonte ended their season with a 73 - 40 thumping.
But they were the only
NorCal boys teams to
win.
Team competition amongst the top three composite teams was extremely close with Oakland Composite (
NorCal) taking the
win, Corona Composite (SoCal) coming in for second, and Reno / Tahoe Composite (
NorCal in 2015 but moving to the new Nevada League in 2016) taking third.
Forward WHY HE»S HERE: The Pirates
won 26 games and stormed their way to a
NorCal Div.
JV Boys D2 was a two person race up front for 18 + miles as Mikael Rodgers of SoCal / South OC Composite and Jake Yackle of
NorCal pushed each other and ended up with Rodgers taking the
win by 15 seconds.
And boy did they need to when starting 5 - foot - 8 point guard Vanessa Garner, a Division I college prospect, went down with a knee injury in a 54 - 51
NorCal semifinal
win over Carondelet - Concord.